Archaeology - March/April 2017

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Visit an ancient church cemetery in France that was used for hundreds of years and which shows the connection people have to place in life—and death. Read about America’s First Revolution (it’s not the one you think). Discover an underground settlement in Turkey’s extraordinary Cappadocia region and imagine how people might have lived and worshipped there for centuries. Learn about an eccentric 19th-century entrepreneur and his grand ideas for turning Philadelphia’s glassworks into his own industrial empire. And travel to Greece to see how archaeologists have pieced together evidence of a well-planned city that is more than four thousand years old which is now hidden under the sea. In these stories—and so many more—this issue of Archaeology brings the past

Digging Up Digital Music

Archaeologists think of stone tools in terms of “technologies”—the particular ways that they were made and used—that help us understand the cultures that produced them. Today we have our own technologies, but they come and go at a vastly different pace. Their life spans are measured not in thousands of years, but in months and even days. To modern digital technology, 65 years is an eon.

3 mins

Kings Of Cooperation

The Olmec city of Tres Zapotes may have owed its longevity to a new form of government.

10 mins

Town Beneath The Waves

In a chance find just off Greece’s Peloponnese, archaeologists have discovered the remains of a once-thriving Early Bronze Age settlement.

2 mins

Memento Mori

A cemetery used for centuries is an expression of the enduring relationship between the living and the dead.

5 mins

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Archaeology Magazine Description:

Each issue of Archaeology offers the grit, and the magic, of archaeological discovery with an up-close view of sites around the world. Readers can look forward to the latest news, vivid storytelling, and compelling photography. Archaeology brings the human past to life.